Jackson To Campaign For Brown In District 3

The 2-day Tour Includes A Speech At B-cc In Daytona, Where A Student Was Slain Last Week.

September 22, 1992|By Peter Mitchell Of The Sentinel Staff

The Rev. Jesse Jackson plans to sweep through Florida today and Wednesday, speaking against violence and supporting state Rep. Corrine Brown's bid for Congress.

Brown, a Jacksonville Democrat, won Jackson's endorsement after emerging from the September primary as the only black candidate left in the race for U.S. House District 3.

She faces Jacksonville developer and radio talk show host Andy Johnson in an Oct. 1 runoff for the Democratic nomination.

Drawn to empower black voters, heavily Democratic District 3 winds through 14 counties, from Orlando to Jacksonville to Lake City, Gainesville and Ocala.

About half the district's voters are black.

Today in Orlando, Jackson will hold a news conference at 5:30 p.m.; a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Democratic Party's Get Out the Vote headquarters, 3214 Orange Center Blvd., at 6 p.m.; and a rally for Brown at 7 p.m. at St. Mark AME Church, 1968 Bruton Blvd.

Wednesday, Jackson travels to Daytona Beach, speaking at 10:30 a.m. in Bethune-Cookman College's gymnasium and at noon in the Greater Friendship Baptist Church at 539 Cypress St.

Jackson's Bethune-Cookman speech, focusing on black-on-black crime, is slated six days after a late-night shooting left B-CC student Wayne Simpson dead and three friends imjured.

No one has been charged in the shooting.

After the B-CC visit, Jackson is scheduled to fly with Brown to campaign in Gainesville, Ocala and Jacksonville.